From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 1 17:21:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.203.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DD914C3E for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 17:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11489; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 17:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 17:21:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian X-Sender: bri@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net To: Edgard Capdevielle Cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: DSL network connectivity, please. In-Reply-To: <000401bedc7c$1b6f7fa0$2b78c13f@edgard.pacbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG why 2 nics. I am doing that, you only need 1. Assuming you have a single ip, just run /stand/sysinstall as root, pick pist install config, network, then your nic I believe. Most popular pci nics are autosupported by the kernel. Bri On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Edgard Capdevielle wrote: > I want to setup my FreeBSD box so that it connects to the internet with DSL. > I have searched the archives and found similar questions but no answers. > > My ISP gave me a fixed hostname IP, a netmask, a DNS IP, a secondary DNS IP, > and a gateway IP. My box is a Gateway GP6 350 with 64 RAM and two NICs: pn0 > and pn1 that are 10/100 Ethernet cards. When using Win98 it is easy to > setup because they have a driver name. In FreeBSD I do not know which card > is pn0 or pn1. The FreeBSD book does not cover DSL connections. > > I know a lot of you have a DSL connection to your FreeBSD box. Please help > me become a Microsoft-free user. > > Edgard > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message